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About this episode
The podcast dives into the dramatic Brazil GP qualifying, highlighting Max Verstappen's shocking elimination in Q1 for the first time in his career and the struggles of Red Bull's car. Lando Norris shines with pole position, showing championship potential, while teammate Oscar Piastri struggles to keep pace. Rookie Kimi Antonelli impresses with strong qualifying performance, and Ollie Bearman surprises by reaching Q3. The hosts discuss strategic decisions, penalties, and the unpredictable weather, setting the stage for an exciting race day with plenty of intrigue and shifting dynamics.
Topics:
max verstappen q1 elimination
red bull car issues
lando norris pole position
oscar piastri struggles
kimi antonelli performance
ollie bearman q3 surprise
brazil gp qualifying analysis
race strategy and penalties
f1 rookie performances
weather impact on qualifying
That was one of the most exciting qualifying sessions of the season! Join us as we recap the first Q1 exit (on pace) in one driver’s whole career, a rookie almost putting it on pole and a magical lap from one of the title contenders…
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It is a very dark day to be Tom Bellingham.
You don't have many dark days on this podcast,
so I'll try not to bask in that glory because I have said many times
that I pray if you're downfall and this is a moment in which it's definitely happened.
But at the same time, of course, from a wider championship perspective,
it is devastating for the entertainment level of this championship
because we've lost a soldier.
We have, absolutely.
If you love him or hate him,
Matt Sustappen provides the entertainment, doesn't he,
for a lot of Formula One in general.
So the fact that he was in this championship fight
and it was kind of keeping McLaren on their toes was such a fascinating thing.
But, you know, even you being the optimistic one can now surely admit it's done.
Well, we'll get into it. We'll get into it.
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OK, let's get into Q1,
which I know Tommy will not want to speak about in the slightest.
But the bottom five were Verstappen,
Ocon, Colla Pinto, Sonoda and Bortoletto.
So the big talking point has to be, of course,
Esteban Ocon wants to get.
I knew you were going to say that.
I literally knew.
We've got the same brain.
Yeah, because I did it last time as well.
It's Max Verstappen out in Q1 the first time in his entire career
where he has been knocked out in Q1 due to his own pure pace,
like putting a lap time on the board other times.
He's been out six times, I think in total,
and the others have been either due to no time set
or there's been a DNF due to engine problem or a crash.
So this is madness, to be honest with you.
He was on the back foot.
The first lap wasn't good enough.
We thought maybe he was just, I don't know, ramping up.
And of course, the track was evolving quite fast in Q1.
Of course, after the rain that we'd seen before the sprint
and then it finally drying out.
But of course, it's still being a green track.
So not a lot of grip down.
But he then sort of toodled around and he was,
he had a lap on the soft.
Then he was doing cool laps to then get ready
to essentially be last across the line
or at least as close as possible
because he knew that the track was evolving.
So he wanted to stay out there and be sure to have a lap
at the end, but it wasn't good enough.
He wasn't able to beat Nico Hülkenberg
to make it through to Q2,
which I don't think would be on anybody's predictions.
Just utterly crazy to see this happen.
It is, it is crazy.
Yeah, as you say, when he was kind of cruising round,
having, you know, not done a lap that was good enough
to get through, he was cruising around.
F1 were playing his radio messages where he was, you know,
you could tell he was panicked and saying,
you know, the car's not right, all this kind of stuff.
He obviously has been complaining about
all these kind of things many, many times this season.
But for him to go out in Q1, like you say,
the first time it's happened in his career
where he's just been literally slow.
And he's insane.
Like I just, I just don't understand this red bull
in the fact that neither does he and this is the problem
this year and why it's flopping and changing so much.
He'll win a race and well, he'll win like three
on the bounce or whatever and be looking great.
And he's had the most pole positions this year.
And then suddenly they are literally
the worst car on the grid.
I mean, Yuki Sonoda has literally qualified last
because Bortlatter wasn't racing and it's the closest
to the step and he's been probably all year in qualifying.
Yeah, that's not a good, good reading for Yuki Sonoda.
The first time since the Japanese Grand Prix
in 2006 that both red bulls have been out in Q1
and they were very much in red field.
20 years worth of qualifying
and this has not happened once to them.
It's an absolute disaster.
There's no way of sugarcoating this.
They made changes of course after the sprint
to help the ride height of or the ride in general,
sorry, of Max's car
because he was complaining lots about it bumping
and bouncing and jumping.
And he said that the ride had improved slightly
but he was having to underdrive the car
to basically keep it in a straight line
and you know that there's something majorly wrong
when Max struggles this much
and yeah, it is going to be the hardest race for Max.
I know that he won from last, from 17th last year
and he starts one position further forward
so championship back on.
No, I'm kidding.
But of course he's not anywhere near the same car.
It doesn't look like it's going to rain tomorrow.
It will be a pretty decent drive
if he even manages to score a handful of points.
Yeah, I completely agree.
Like it's going to be impossible I think for Max to do anything
like we saw last year.
Doesn't have the car underneath him.
He's really struggling with the pace
and as you say, like what has happened to this weather
that has been promised?
You know, we're having warnings of everyone stay inside
because it's going to be so wet
and then we had almost a dry sprint minus one wet curb
which obviously caught out a few drivers.
To be fair, the back straight was pretty wet.
And the back straight wet, yeah, yeah.
And then yeah, a completely dry qualifying.
It's been quite mad.
So much for the like, all the graphics
everyone was pasting a 95% chance of rain all weekend.
But Brazil has still delivered both in the sprint
and also qualifying for a lot of drama
and a lot of entertainment.
Yeah, some more entertaining than others
if you're a Max fan.
A question from Fergie's right ref.
Should Max change the engine, the setup and start from last?
It really does depend whether Red Bull are completely
in the dark as to why their car is clearly not working.
I think that there's a hundred percent
the right decision to take everything
that they need to for Max, put in a new engine,
change the setup to something
that might be a little bit better
even maybe just revert to what they had previously
where Max was complaining about the riotite
but at least he finished fourth in the sprint.
There needs to be radical changes
because whatever happened today
cannot happen again tomorrow.
So, and of course they're in part for me
so they can't change it unless
he decides to start from the pit lane.
But I think that they have to
if Max genuinely comes away from qualifying
and goes I cannot drive this car
then if they stay there and they start 16th
and they take that track position
over Ocon, Colobinto, Sonoda and Bortoletto
there's no guarantee that he'll move forward.
No, it's not like a situation here
where we saw before that they were trying to
I think in Mexico they were trying to set the car up
for race pace which sacrificed a bit of qualifying
because we all know that Max has been
very good at qualifying this year
and has been able to put it in pole positions
but here you know it doesn't even matter
if for some reason that car was very good
in race pace because he's 16th
and probably going to have a dry race
so he'll be able to pick off a few cars
you can overtake in Brazil
but we've seen how tricky it is in 2025
so he is best off just going for something
radically different, changing the engine
but I don't know what he can do from there really
to be perfectly honest
and that's not even me being pessimistic
like he'll get some points maybe
but he's not going to like fly through the field
based on like what we've seen from the other teams
Unlikely, very unlikely even coming from me
so I can only imagine how you feel in your brain
A question from underscore Vianne
should Max drive in one of the V-Carb cars
for the rest of the season?
They have 5th and 7th on the grid V-Carb
I think that just like makes it even more
painful to see because this red bull car
is so confusing clearly
that they've obviously gone down this very extreme route
to give Max what he wants
and when it works, boy does it work
and you know Max is phenomenal
he's won races this year by like 20 seconds
but when it's bad
it's not even just like a
okay we're going to slot into like a P4, 5 or 6
it's been like horrendously bad
and this is the worst it's been
you know to be both of them out
you kind of expect Yuki to struggle
but Max to be out
it's an absolute shocker
and yeah all the torque again will shift to
should he be in the V-Carb
because they've done really well
Just chuck him in now at this point
bless you Tommy
just chuck him in
like I know that they're fighting for second in the constructors
but they're not going to fight him at all
Do they even really want to be second in the constructors?
Yes, there's some cash involved in it
but surely fourth and a bit more wind tunnel time
is not the worst solution
it would just be great fun, wouldn't it at this point?
Max is not going to win the world championship now
unless we have the most insane Grand Prix tomorrow
which actually maybe champion is not fully off yet, Tommy
let's keep some positivity
but it is not looking that way, is it?
I know this is a jokey question from Dianne
but I would love to see it
and I think a lot of people would love to see it as well
Right, before we dive into the rest of the quality session
I think it's worth mentioning
and sort of a light round of applause for the attempt
that Salba made to fix Portoletto's car
because it was so close
we thought the delay of qualifying might have given
the 10 minutes that Gabby needed to get his car put together
but sadly wasn't able to get out for presenting GP qualifying
but it was close, wasn't it?
It was looking like they actually may have been able to pull it off
It was very close
the Porsche Super Cup tried their best to delay things a little bit for Gabby
but sadly for him didn't work out
and so is your shame because he's been very impressive this season
and obviously the Brazilian fans are very happy
to have a Brazilian driver back on the grid
and he'll be starting the race in the last
Or maybe not if Max starts from the pit lane, true
and finally the mystery of Ocon in qualifying continues
while Ollie Berman was having questions
as to whether he was getting pole position
Q2, let's head to that now with the five drivers out
were Albon, Alonso, Hamilton, Stroll and Sines
Lewis Hamilton of course the big talking point from this one
13th in the end for Lewis
while Charles Leclerc at one point was on provisional pole in Q3
the Hamilton struggles continue
I think we were both of what we were in our predictions
absolutely in the boat of if there is going to be a breakthrough
performance for Hamilton
especially after the momentum
he's sort of been picking up a little bit
of course Max couldn't go his way
but just in terms of improvements within the car
the confidence and being closer to Charles
we thought it would all come to a head
and this would be it
Brazil will be the performance that we know he can deliver
but 13th just not good enough
you could see in that last sector in particular
just wrestling the car just constantly
sort of counter steering around the final corner
course had that spin as well in free practice one
don't forget and just generally
Ferrari have looked a little bit out of sorts
of course sharper in a brilliant performance
but Hamilton not the first time he's been out in Q2
of course SQ2 as well
he was knocked out indeed but I think was was worse
for Hamilton here is is the fact that it is so far behind
Charles you know we've had moments where Hamilton's
gone out in Q2 and it's not to excuse it
but when Charles may be qualified 8th or 9th
and then Hamilton squeaked squeaked through in like
11 12 something is a lot smaller
but for Charles to be up in 3rd Hamilton down
in 13th and a track that he loves and has done
so well in the past
I think that's what makes it even tougher for him
certainly as a Hamilton
I'm sure I haven't seen the post-Quality interview
but I'm imagining he will be very gutted
with that performance as well as of course
Lance Stroll in 14th but quite close to Alonso
he well I was I was getting a bit nervous
when Alonso didn't improve
because obviously there's this record now
it's well in the 30s
I'm sure it's like 34 35 in a row
that Alonso has outqualified Stroll consecutively
now and I thought Stroll might improve
but you didn't get many improveers at the end of that session
no and I think the big talking point from Q2
was not necessarily the bottom five
but Ollie Bearman being fastest
and we genuinely were questioning
whether this was some insane breakthrough
where my flop curse has had a generational
incorrectness about it
even after last time when when you predicted him
and he was fourth if he was going to go
even best so yeah
I'm a get pole now Matt cheers for that
but yeah it was a stunning performance from him in Q2
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Let's head to the final quality session
Q3 with the top 10 for tomorrow's race
Norris, Antonelli, Leclerc, Piastri, Hajar, Russell, Lawson,
Bearman, Gasly and Hülkenberg
Let's get into the first question from this segment
P1Patreon member Frankie
Is Lando proving to everyone that he is truly championship material?
For sure
Yeah, this was the question that we've asked on this podcast
We've said
you know, when the times get tough
when there's pressure on his shoulders at this point in the season
can he deliver
and can he deliver well
and quite frankly
it was a phenomenal lap from Lando
to take pole position
when he had messed up that first lap
locked up into turn one
and he could have easily sacrificed a little bit of time
put himself on the back foot
and maybe started third or fourth tomorrow
but instead
he pulled it all together
and still was nearly 4 tenths clear of Piastri
his teammate that
you'd say that half a season ago
you'd be like, wow
that's an insane gap between the two of them
but it's becoming more normal now
Lando is delivering
so unbelievably well
I said it on the watch along
but this was a lap
and a performance that you go
yes, he is world championship ready now
I think it helps
his confidence that Max has just
you know, him and Red Bull have just disintegrated
his championship challenge has gone
so there's an element of pressure gone there
and for Oscar as well
who's scrambling around
trying to find the pace he had for most of this season
but that's
you can't take anything away from Lando
because he's clearly got
the confidence in the car
that he didn't have in that first half of the season
and he's delivering to a level now that
I mean, he's literally topped every single session
in a Brazilian Grand Prix sprint weekend
where in the sprint it was slippery
he could easily have been Piastri in that situation
careering towards the wall
he wasn't
he could have easily made a poor
qualifying performance after that first
mistaken Q3
and he didn't
and he's on pole position
so
you have to say pretty
not flawless
because we just spoke about a mistake in Q3
but very close to it
very close to it
but I think
what you mentioned about the mistaken
in Q3
maybe he has gone by and we've
I think fairly criticized Lando in the past
for the mistakes that he's made under pressure
and he himself has admitted
that he's one of these drivers
that does really struggle with the pressure
and you do wonder
in previous seasons
had
you know
Lando had that moment
where he did mess up his first lap
and because at that point
it's
insane to think that Lando was
looking like
if we'd had some kind of red flag
Lando's 10th
and Oscar Piastri is on pole position
and it's another flip of the
you know the championship
but instead
Lando just delivers
an amazing lap to put four tenths on his teammate
hooks it all up
and his confidence is just sky high at the moment
not just as he won
you know the sprint
the sprint and had like this perfect weekend so far
he also you know got pole position
and won so comfortably in Mexico last time
so he's on this amazing run now
and yeah you
it's not over but you really wouldn't
bet against Lando now like he's looking
so so comfortable and I think
something you've just mentioned
the
the pressure
of having Max Verstappen in a title fight
has got to be completely different
no disrespect to Oscar Piastri
and then having your teammate Oscar Piastri
who himself is obviously struggling quite a lot
I said to the next question about Oscar himself
P1Patreon member Flyeunz
what does Piastri need to do
if he wants to bring the challenge
to Lando?
He needs to find something desperately
any anything
I think what what is
really concerning is the gap again
between them
because
had he just slotted into P2
it gives an opportunity
for a turn one dive bomb
and when he's in the lead
it's a we know how hard it is to overtake in 2025
so even if he doesn't have the pace of Lando
he could still probably win the race
you know even if Lando is quicker
and that's a trend that we've seen a lot this year
with the two McLarens
one of them is behind and quicker
but it's not always easy to pass
when there's not a huge advantage
so he really needed to get
you know P2 on the grid
to be able to go for it
it's not the
you know you'd think
he's going to just be hoping that he can
based on Lando's pace
get through to P2
and kind of
damage limitation a bit
but
I do
you know he needs to be beating Lando very very soon
if he's going to have any opportunity
because
he's just not
he's just not at the moment is he at all
he's not fourth isn't good enough
and
we
said coming into this Brazilian Grand Prix that
a second and a second is fine
but he's crashed out of the sprint
and now he starts fourth
which yes is not absolute disaster territory
it's not starting sixteenth
like some
uh... sorry mate
I just take the opportunities when I can
yeah they're rare
really apologize
yeah they're very rare
so I missed actually the first time he's gone out in Q1
what he needs to do
I mean second place again has to be the aim
I don't think he beats Lando tomorrow
doesn't seem like it's going to be a difficult
uh... in terms of conditions wise race for Lando
he'll have to negotiate Kimi Antonelli once again
make sure Kimi doesn't do anything down the inside into turn one but
Oscar
it just again it's
he's too far away for me to have any confidence they can turn this around
quick time
it's not like we have
half a season to go and this is just crept in
it's crept in at the absolute worst time for Oscar Piastri
we've looked at his previous seasons and this this part of the calendar has never
been nice to him anyway
uh... and that trend is is continuing
uh... it really is so
what Oscar needs to do is find the pace he's not got the pace
so he needs to find it in himself
to pick himself up after the sprint
and finish second tomorrow to have any hope
that Lando might have something go wrong
or his car might have some kind of problems because
right now that's what he has to kind of almost
he needs to hope for Lando to
to mess up and at the moment it's just not looking like he's going to
no not at all
okay let's move on to the man starting in second position P1PT remember sky
Sarah
what are the chances Kimi overtakes Lando and gets his first race win
the chances are low he's on the dirty side of the grid
uh... I don't think the sprint race is particularly a good example
of a like for like just purely because it was slippery and uh...
the conditions can can vary Lando was convinced that he had the worst
spot on the grid but I'm not so sure about that he got a pretty good launch
and it did very well
the chances are low as much as we have seen moves into turn one at Brazil
it's such a short run
down there it is reasonably wide you can try around the outside or down the
inside and
and kind of go side by side for the first couple of corners in the center
S's but
realistically
it's unlikely I think Kimi showed some good pace
uh... in in the sprint but again we don't have that like for like evidence
because they were never on the same tire
they were on opposite strategies
uh... but but Kimi's been really quick this weekend and as much as you look at
the
on paper and you are Kimi Antonelli P2 that's kind of
out of position in comparison to you think George Russell would maybe be
there but he's down in sixth
but Kimi is there on pure speed he's not there through luck and he's
probably
the closest challenger to Lando
that we could hope for so as much as it feels do you kind of see what I mean
it kind of feels out of place
but it's not and Kimi has been very quick and
I think that the chances are low but they're not impossible
yeah definitely I think this
you know being a two-part question what the chances Kimi overtakes Lando
and gets his first race win if you take it as two questions I think I'm
more confident that he could
potentially overtake Lando
going into turn one I don't think it would be easy
I do think it's a long shot but we have seen people
pass
into turn one
depending you know Lando has sort of starts out a lot better now
so it's that's not going to be
as much of a problem for him
but we have seen second place take the lead more than a few times into
Lagos
but in terms of like getting his first race win
the only way I see that is if you know Lando Norris's engine goes
kaput again or something because Kimi is looking
like very very quick
but Lando just looks unstoppable so it's going to be very hard for Kimi
to win but
I mean even if he just banks like a P2 or a P3
I think you know Toto is going to be
beaming at seeing how well Kimi Antonelli has done this weekend he's been really really impressive
he certainly has
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how is Kimi proving to be so good at his first time in into Lagos
so true it's it's amazing what what he's managing to do
whether it's a circuit that just suits his driving style because
if you look at Kimi Antonelli this this season the
a lot of the time you talk about Formula 2 drivers and you go oh well this is a track they know
so they'll have much more confidence
Kimi's best races have been Miami and into Lagos so far
but sprint weekend sprint both sprint weekends which again is another thing
that they say
should be in theory more difficult for the rookies because they have less time to dial in
less time to you know do their their set ups and dial into the weekend
and the fact that that Kimi has been
absolutely rapid at these two sprint weekends
and that on tracks he's never driven for is really impressive and I
don't know the answer
no it's a it's a big question mark I'm wondering whether that weird food
preservative or whatever is is a band or not I think someone said that it he is
it is not banned here so yeah so there you go there's there's the answer
look at George Russell has been a massive kind of
question mark for me really like Kimi Antonelli has been delivering
massively and and perhaps it's more just the fact of George having a pretty
poor weekend
and the Merc is actually right up there as one of the fastest cars because
we've seen it before George has had a win at Brazil and I think Mercedes have
always been reasonably competitive here in the last few years so it's I think
half of one and half a dozen the other whatever the the phrase is but I just
feel as though yeah George is having a lackluster weekend and Kimi is really
just proving that that he's able to just hit the ground running with a
sprint weekend it's Mercedes are very similar to Ferrari where they just
don't really know what's going on and neither do the fans as to why
they're sometimes pretty quick there was the cold conditions usually work well
in their favor but it's mad to think George was on on mediums in that on that
last Q3 lap trying to desperately find some kind of pace but but well done to
Kimi finally well not finally but finally in terms of the top three
Charlotte Clair just need to mention him because absolutely worth
mentioning P3 I mean where did that come from then you know sprint
quali was was a disaster for for at least for my standards and for Ferrari
standards I would say but this was yeah great like provisional pole was was fast
throughout most of qualifying it was yeah just again just a complete and
utter bizarre thing to try and understand but I guess with with sprint
weekends teams are constantly learning and don't forget as well that after
the sprint race they can change the setup they can change things to hone
it in for essentially the main 25 point part of the weekend and so perhaps
Charlotte Claire found something and that's what's happened there yeah it's
very much and also as well he was saying about it the engines in the sprint
not doing what they expected to do they were saying that there was
something around that there was losing both him and Hamilton time I know
that Hamilton's obviously out in Q2 but perhaps there was a fix that
Ferrari found there as well yeah it's strange the the form how much you know
we've had different drivers doing well obviously like we'll get on to Ali
Bearman in a bit he kind of came out of nowhere like up near the front the
Ferraris weren't there in the first qualifying session we had this this
weekend on Friday and now now they're performing it well in the close case
a lot better and it was an absolutely insane and to that to that
qualifying and you know as there was always that moment where you knew if
Lando hooked it up he'd be on pole but the fact that we were looking at you
know Leclerc, Piastri, Bearman, Antonelli it kept all like changing between them
and was incredibly close and yeah shall put in another another very good lap
to be P3 when probably you know shouldn't be there with with what
machinery's got underneath them no definitely shouldn't be there Tommy
there's there's no doubt in my mind that was a phenomenal qualifying lap from
Charlotte Claire not a fanboy and all that good stuff question for people in
picture memory crazy Casper 3-1-1-2 what happened to Ali in Q3 I think it's I'm
not even going to criticize him he was four hundredths of a second from
starting fifth on the grid less than the tenth from starting fourth so for
Ali I'm questioning the Haas strategy a little bit of sending him out first both
times in Q3 the run plan felt very much very safe it felt like just just put it
like sixth mate and we'll be really happy with that we want to score points
tomorrow don't want to risk a yellow flag don't want to risk a red flag at
the end of qualifying but at the same time I would have liked to have seen
at least one of those laps be a little bit more on the aggressive side
of the run plan but that didn't happen and I feel as though that second and
final lap that we saw from Oli was perhaps a little bit of over-driving but at the
same time his teammate Esteban Occom was 17 the fact that Oli Berman even
took it to Q3 and had us wondering whether he was going to be in the top
five was was a brilliant job from him but yeah just perhaps a little bit on
the over-driving side in that final lap you do wonder if the the
excitement of like him maybe knowing after in that first run what an amazing
kind of opportunity this is to get a really really good result it may be his
soft pole in third place after the first run exactly so like he was probably
pushing it maybe you get to start to think like oh if I could be later on
the brakes here or do this you know I've got an amazing opportunity to do
it and what the what surprises me about this is you mentioned about the run
plans and yeah they played it very safe but you can argue that you know there
are any couple of positions above tenth anyway as if it's gone all wrong so
yeah not not the right opportunity for for Haas because I think it could have
been so much better for them a little bit on Berman side as well for over
driving but we're just seeing what a special talent is now and there'll
be moments where things don't go his way of course we since the since we
recorded the sprint we've found out that he's got another penalty point which
haven't spoken about yet but with the loss and incident I don't know if you
want to go further into that but very strange that they kind of both ended
up with penalties in that situation yeah so Ollie lost the penalty points
thankfully for him so he's on 9 out of 12 at the moment Ollie got the
penalty point for the squeeze on Lawson prior to the corner in the sprint which
the stewards didn't deemed to be unfair and so gave him that but then Lawson was
then penalized for the actual corner so that was they deemed him to be at fault
because of the racing rules yeah exactly for the racing rules and they
couldn't deem whether he was fully alongside Ollie Berman from all of the
different you know the angles that they have which I found is crazy because it was
a perfectly legitimate overtake he Ollie had lost so much momentum going into that
corner of course Liam Lawson was going to go for it it just yeah it's just
these racing rules isn't it unfortunately like the way it's written they always
have to go with what the rulebook says and not common sense of like it's a
racing incident Liam Lawson had every right to go for that corner and go for
that move yeah and they've just they've just banged wheels or whatever say yeah
so Ollie Berman on nine penalty points Liam Lawson's on eight as well so worth
keeping an eye on those for the next few Grand Prix weekends but back to the
qualifying and a final few thoughts first and foremost Pierre Gasly P9 in the
Alpine and of course got a point in the sprint which we forgot to mention in
our haste of trying to get the podcast out in time so Pierre Gasly is
having an absolutely amazing weekend and I love the the sort of joke that you
told me that maybe you'd read online about the fact that he's sort of been
withholding his pace until Colopinto signed a contract and now he is just
just a ridiculous fast again yeah yeah Gasly has been absolutely amazing this
weekend so far if he manages to bag some more points you know he's in the
talk of one of the the drivers of the weekend for sure and we'll be getting
a tasty little grade in driver ratings which I'm sure you're all looking
forward to and Gasly is he's been good around here obviously got the podium
last year and we know that Alpine has struggled so much this year to get
anything and you this is the thing up and down the grid you know these
drivers are very competent drivers Gasly's won a Grand Prix and they just
hasn't had the machinery but for whatever reason is working for him this
weekend he's doing an incredible job certainly is Nico Holkenberg also made
Q3 so a shout-out to him but yeah Pierre Gasly what a what a performance so
far and then also the V-Carbs you know fifth and seventh for Hajar and
Lawson tomorrow which once again you know they kind of came out of
nowhere and stole a little bit of the thunder that Oli Berman had had had
through Q2 and beyond but yeah great from Hajar great from Lawson and the
rookies really shone in a in a weekend where you would think maybe they
wouldn't considering it's Brazil yeah indeed slightly nerdy observation that
I've just seen looking at the qualifying result is normally you get
at least some 2x2s not a single teammate pairing next to each other on the
entire grid which is quite cool there you go Tommy facts for you
enjoyed that one right that is it thank you everybody for tuning in to another
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wait for it to trick it down with rain tomorrow max wins I might actually
rather than the race I'm I'm gonna just play last year and pretend that that's
the result we'll do a watch along to last year's race so be sure to tune
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